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kevink077

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5. 25th amendment is a gray area

Reply to L. Coyote (Reply #3)

Fri May 19, 2017, 06:20 PM

May 2017

From what I understand/ the sitting president has to be incapacitated. while Trump is mentally deranged; I think the founders meant it for someone who is in a coma, or so Ill they cannot mentally function. He will likely resign like Nixon did so he is not impeached.

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